A Short Introduction To The Philately Of Palestine

Concise List of Post Offices and their Post Marks 1917--1948

The following table lists all known post offices and postal facilities with their post marks, including army and field installations.
The period covered is the start of the occupation by allied forces in 1917 to the end of the mandate in May 1948.
The actual post marks with their inscriptions are listed in a summarising fashion only. They are not detailed by size or design, but the total number of variants is noted.

This list is based to a large extent on information published in various books, including the handbooks by Michael Sacher and David Dorfman. More detailed work has to be done on this aspect of postal history.

Mandate post marks show dates in two main ways:
the month is abbreviated either with two or three letters. The Year is expressed as a two-digit or a four-digit number.